Why does French simultaneously have Louis, Clovis and Ludovic?
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Why does Spanish have e in he and French has ai, implying a past diphtong?
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I read that at some point Argentina was only used to refer to the Buenos Aires Province. Why was that?
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Why do we in standard French say rebelle, rebeller, but rébellion?
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I’ve heard about General American and Canadian and standard British English being taught when teaching English in non-English-speaking environments, are any other dialects widely used to teach throughout the world?
Why does fish mean homosexual in Jamaica?
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Is it true Habla Congo is used in secular music in Cuba?
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Why did the US of New Grenada rename themselves Colombia?
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Why does niche mean black and low-class in some dialects of Spanish?
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If I were to subdivide the Americas in great geopolotical subregions, would Bahamians be fine with the Bahamas being put in the West Indies region or would they prefer to be put in the Lucayan Archipelago region to account for their cultural and sociological particularities?
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Why is Chile part of the Bolivarian Games?
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Do Turks and Caicos Islanders generally cconsider themselves North American?
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Do Bahamian generally consider themselves to be North American?
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What was the Gran Colombia-Nicaragua-CR border situation?
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Connaissez-vous un rappeur de Montréal qui fait de la drill de style UK ou NY qui est plutôt bon et populaire et qui rappe en français ?
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Etymology of sueño guajiro?
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What are Cuban words of French origin?
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What dialects glottalizes the /x/ ("j") sound?
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Are ruralites called jíbaros in Cuba?
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What does mulato/mulata mean in Cuba?
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Why is tú more formal than vos in Spanish
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Why do vos and vosotros have different conjugations?
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I’ve once heard the reason why the word bunda is part of UK slang is because of the widespread popularity of Brazilian funk in the 2000’s in the UK. How true is that?
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Best way to turn my picture into a JoJo-style art?
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De quoi parle la chanson La malice domoun?
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